Let's Talk Science National Office

This activity from the Feast for the Senses Lending Library kit is great for community booths. The attached discovery card is Christmas/holiday themed. Participants try to guess the smell of various bottles.

Buoyancy is the upward force that the water is exerting on the object that is floating. It is what is keeping the object from sinking! In this activity, we will learn about buoyancy through creating our own boats.

This activity is a good demonstration of genetic differences (about 70% of those tested should be able to taste it).

This activity discusses Optics/Perception and teaches about the persistence of vision.

Perform a simple calculation to see how gravity affects your weight.

This activity introduces pre-school / kindergarten aged students to the different steps in the life cycle of a butterfly from egg, to caterpillar, to chrystalis / cocoon, to butterfly. The students also get to create and take home a butterfly or caterpillar craft.

During this activity, the participants complete four different tasks to learn about five forces - gravity, friction, magnetism, static electricity and buoyancy.

Students will learn about stars and create a "constellation viewer" where they can create a constellation to look at.

Read "My Hero is You" and learn about germs and the importance of washing your hands.

Read "Who Likes the Wind?" and learn about wind and renewable energy.

Read "Curious George and the Hot Air Balloon" and learn about the properties of light.

Read "The Cloud Spinner" and learn about the water cycle in nature.

Students are given an unlabeled picture of a night sky and asked to find the constellations in it.

Students have the opportunity explore different ways that animals insulate themselves to stay warm in winter by testing different insulating materials in ice cold water (e.g., fur, cotton balls, foil, thermal sock, etc.).

Students explore the science of sound by creating their own "Walkman" which transmits vibrations through a piece of string.